The New Teen Titans: The Terror of Trigon by Marv Wolfman


The New Teen Titans: The Terror of Trigon
Title : The New Teen Titans: The Terror of Trigon
Author :
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ISBN : 1563899442
ISBN-10 : 9781563899447
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 144
Publication : First published January 1, 1985

As a team of super-powered young adult heroes, the Teen Titans live an extraordinary life that balances everyday adolescent ordeals with exciting deadly battles. But in THE NEW TEEN TITANS: THE TERROR OF TRIGON, the group of heroic sidekicks encounters their greatest and most lethal challenge when Raven's father, the demon Trigon, crosses over realities and conquers Earth. Now Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Starfire, Cyborg, Changeling, and the former Robin, must defeat their teammate's father and return him to his dimensional prison or watch as the world is transformed into a hell on Earth for all eternity.


The New Teen Titans: The Terror of Trigon Reviews


  • Chad

    One of the classic Teen Titan tales. At the time, the Teen Titans was the best selling comic on shelves. To the point where DC handed them this second series using a higher quality paper for the first time. And so began the Baxter format. It allowed George Perez to go nuts. Things that are common place now, Perez invented back in the 80's. With this new book Perez eliminated borders, drawing to the end of the page. He was able to experiment with different art styles when the Titans were pulled into Trigon's dimension. The book just looks so far ahead of its time. And Perez was drawing both Teen Titans books at the same time. The guy is a beast.

  • Jokoloyo

    At the beginning I was excited with the premise that Trigon was back, and Raven became his adjutant. But then the Trigon back from his isolation and I was disappointed. Trigon is basically no more than a powerful puppet. For example, Starfire could sneaked out behind Trigon's back.

    With this continuation arc, I prefer TNTT finished the story up to The First Annual.

  • Sophia

    2020
    The New Teen Titans stories are some of my favourites from the 80s. They’re always deep and emotional PLUS the build-up starts from like the previous 20 issues!

    The Terror of Trigon is no different. We had always been told that Raven needed to subdue her emotions or her father Trigon would be able to use her and take control. In these issues we see exactly that happen.

    I know I’ve read this before yet I completely forgot some really important details such as how involved Raven’s mother was. How Lilith (a character I really completely forgot about) is so important for the finale.

    I really enjoyed seeing the team’s innermost fears. It creates such depth of character that you don’t usually see in older comics.
    Although, I have to say, Wally’s nightmare dream things slightly confused me. I was never sure exactly what his fear was.

    This story could’ve been all about Raven and her fight to stop her father yet the team was still heavily featured, the story progressing their personal lives as well! Not only that, there was lore building with Azar and the people of Azarath which was pretty cool.


    2017
    A very interesting story that many other issues have been hinting at for a while. I loved the back stories and insights into the characters we view. I have not read all the Titans comics so some of the characters I had never seen before but that didn't hinder me in understanding where the story was going. Overall, a great Teen Titan series and conclusion to a heavily hinted at story.

  • Dan Schwent

    Continuing my comic history course...

    Back in the day, The New Teen Titans was DC's top selling book every month. I had a few issues but I was mainly interested in Starfire's rack back then. I thought I'd give it another try 20-something years later.

    The Terror of Trigon focuses on Raven, the cloaked Teen Titan empath that's the daughter of a demon. Trigon, her father, unleashes her powers and New York is attacked by a horde of demons and transformed into something like hell. The other Titans are the only ones left standing and have to save the world.

    George Perez's art shows why he's the last of the great comic pencillers. At the time this came out, he was doing two Titans books per month AND extras on the side. And he wasn't skimping. The panels are hyper-detailed and easily stand up to what he's putting out today.

    Marv Wolfman's writing is a notch above other 80's comic book fare. It's easy to see why this book was neck in neck with the X-Men every month.

  • Sesana

    I read this book at more than a few years ago, armed only with the knowledge of the Titans I'd picked up from the (really, really good) Teen Titans cartoon. As it turned out, that was about all I'd need to follow the story. But now that I've read a fair few of the issues that came before this, I think I have a better understanding of Raven's overall storyarc.

    Now that I've read most of the issues of New Teen Titans that preceded this storyline, I can see how this is the natural conclusion of Raven's struggles with her father, the demon Trigon. And Wolfman pulls some clever ticks to drive that impression home. Raven's look has evolved considerably since her first appearance, and Wolfman made it a key detail in the story. Very clever.

    The workload Perez was under when he was drawing this storyline was unbelievable. And yet, it doesn't show for a moment. At no point did I feel like he was mailing it in. And that could just be because Perez is an amazing artist and his version of mailing it in is better than most artists' concentrated attention, but I doubt it. It's just a great book to look at. A little dated in some of the design choices, sure, but still obviously top quality.

    But I couldn't recommend this to just anyone. I don't think you'll get much out of it, or at least not as much, if you aren't already attached to these characters, especially Raven, in some form. So read some more of Wolfman and Perez's New Teen Titans first. You'll be glad you did.

  • Robert Wright

    There are just certain runs that set the standard for team superhero books.

    1970s Avengers
    Claremont-Byrne X-men
    Morrison's JLA

    And Wolfman-Perez on New Teen Titans.

    This paperback collects the first few issue of the Baxter paper series (back when decent paper was a novelty for comics) and about 4 years into the creative team's run on the book. This was back when new #1 issues were not yet de rigueur seemingly every few months.

    This is a true Wolfman/Perez classic. I've never been a Trigon fan, and this falls slightly short of the series' high marks (the original Brother Blood saga, Who is Donna Troy?), but it's still great fun and light years ahead of what passes for a Titans book these days.

    Sure, it may be a little melodramatic by today's standards, but not too much for a hero book.

    This is a little slice of why so many people love the Teen Titans.

  • T-cup

    "I AM AWAKE! AND I THIRST FOR VENGEANCE! BEWARE, HUMANS -- FOR NOW YOU SHALL SUFFER THE TERROR OF TRIGON!"
    - Trigon

    Raven, member of the Teen Titans, has been distancing herself from her teammates. Unknown to her friends, her father the demon Trigon, has been manipulating her to assist him in his conquest of our dimension. He's a typical conqueror... an insanely powerful blowhard who's so focused on his long term goals that he, in his arrogance, sees all the "little people" as gnats and is therefore completely oblivious/ignorant to any threat they might pose (a mistake that real-life dictators often make).
    So, of course, our heroes eventually defeat Trigon... but a what cost?
    I'm not much for occult stories, so this one didn't hold my interest. But, 80's Teen Titans are pretty damn great. This was following the Crisis On Infinite Earths the rebooted the entire DC universe, to which the characters made numerous referrences (gotta sell them comics). At least DC has the brains to keep this title in the capable hands of Wolfman and Perez.
    If I see a comic on the shelf with Perez on the spine, I'll give it a look. So many comic artists have a few strengths and at lest one glaring fault. Not George Perez. His work is always clean and simple. It never feels like he's trying to blow the reader away with massive two-page layout to show-off his knowledge of anatomy. He just tells the story with pictures in a way that's always consistent and subtle.
    Anyway, dry-humping George Perez's leg. While this wasnt my kind of story, it was still engaging, detailed and revealing. Three stars.

  • Daria

    The comic really shows its age but honestly despite that it was still a lot of fun. This is the first story I read that wasn't from the Modern Age so there were a lot of things to get used to (like the very bright art and the description of everything that happens in every single panel despite the fact that it's already illustrated. There are a few dodgy moments but overall I enjoyed reading it, I liked the characters and I felt as if I got to know them pretty well despite the fact that there's so many of them and only 7 issues (which is something to be praised since there's comics that fail to develop ONE character in seven issues). I thought it was a bit weird that their first challenge was saving the universe, and now we're moving on to more important things such as petty theft, but you know, maybe it's for the better. Show the least interesting thing first is an incentive to develop characters around it (the less compelling villain, the more focus on the other characters, you know??).

  • Printable Tire

    Meh. I guess I don't know/care enough about the Teen Titans for this to mean anything to me... I've always been interested in this time period/incarnation though because I think the art is superb. Trigon is an awesome-looking though totally generic villain and I think it's silly Raven wears high heels, even in demon form. She's an interesting character, but I'm afraid the rest are more or less eye candy (especially that Cyborg... vavavoom! No, seriously, Starbust [sic] has tremendous breasts and Wonder Girl's aren't so bad either).

    I hate it in fiction when a protagonist has to confront an evil doppleganger of themselves and the evil incarnation torments them with obvious taunts about their "deepest" fears: for example, Nightwing in here is accused of failing Batman by growing up and not being Robin anymore. I always wish the psychology of these cartoon cardboard doppleganger confrontations went beyond the obvious stuff to more complicated, real fears everybody has- but they usually just touch the surface and end with a boxing match, which bums me out.

    Great 80's art, mediocre story.

  • Christian Zamora-Dahmen

    People usually say that the best Teen Titan story was Terra's storyarc; well, this one was the best for me. Not only the series had evolved to a point where characters felt real and you couldn't stop rooting for them, it was also George Pérez' swan song to the series. He left behind a void impossible to fill.

    Raven played a key role and she was a character that matured very slowly but marked a growth rarely seen in comic book characters during those days. Yeah, it was the mid-80's. Even today, it is rare to see a main comic book character age or evolve the way she did. She also embraced the ultimate shyness and tortured soul that was so easy to relate with for a closeted, extremely introverted kid as I used to be.

    Both art and story are beyond belief. You actually have to see it to understand what I'm talking about. Every character has his or her own trial and you can even read it in the way they're drawn.

    This story was epic in a way that some animé movies really understand. Things are huge, the stakes are impossible, and the Titans have to give their all, knowing that it will never be enough.

  • Johanna

    I did, like a lot of other people, first come in contact with Teen Titans when watching the Teen Titans cartoon (which I also highly recommend), and that was when I first fell in love with Raven's character and her Trugon Arc. I then started scavanging the internet for teh Trigon Arc in comic form, which I quickly found. And I'll keep this short; This is it, folks! If you're a huge Raven-nerd this series is, naturally, an essential read! And even if your favorite character is someone else in the TT-cast, you will still thouroughly enjoy it! The Trigon-arc is in my opinion the very best Teen Titans arc to date (Sorry, Judas Contract, but ToT has my heart in a firm grasp).

  • Tony Laplume

    A black and white mass market paperback edition of the first issues from the Wolfman/Perez comics, introducing, well, a new Teen Titans that continues to resonate forty years later. The characters, and their dynamics, arrive fully formed, including the dawn of their legendary feud with Deathstroke.

  • Chicken Pot Pies & Books

    Honestly of of my favorite comics ever and the BEST teen titans/titans storylines holy shit.... the art work when arella was stuck in trigons dimension and when trigon took over New York... I got chills

  • Zacky JC

    La forma en la que tortura a los Titanes deja grandes repercusiones (emocionalmente hablando) al final de la historia.

  • Nathan Spencer

    My personal favorite comic arc as a kid. Still holds up phenomenally on a re-read.

  • Daniel A.


    Marv Wolfman and
    George Pérez's run on The New Teen Titans has gained a reputation for being the apotheosis of 1980s superhero comics, with storytelling that rivaled
    Chris Claremont and
    John Byrne's on The Uncanny X-Men; indeed, many a comics fan has compared them, and the two franchises even teamed up in a large-format special drawn by
    Walt Simonson. This collection,
    The New Teen Titans: The Terror of Trigon, is the apotheosis of Wolfman and Pérez's run.

    Wolfman began his career as a writer of horror comics, among them Tomb of Dracula for Marvel (in which the character Blade debuted), and it shows in this collection. The very concept, of a demon who is evil epitomized—and the father of one of the founders of the New Teen Titans—taking over the earth, is the stuff of horror, and the storytelling kept me in suspense throughout the reading of The Terror of Trigon. And the art matches the plot as well; Pérez escapes the restrictions of the now-defunct Comics Code Authority and draws truly horrific, often cringeworthy, art in many places. (And when one considers that at this time, Pérez was penciling three monthly comics—among them
    Crisis on Infinite Earths with Wolfman—the quality of the art is all the more impressive.)

    But the uglier elements of the plot aren't the whole of it; Wolfman writes some excellent moments of characterization as well. For example, the scene in the first chapter in which Princess Koriand'r (a.k.a. Starfire) wakes up in bed with Dick "Nightwing" Grayson—the first time the comic made explicit their romantic relationship—and any scene in which Joseph "Jericho" Wilson appears. For that matter, Pérez's art in these scenes is evocative as well, insofar as Starfire and Nightwing's bedroom panel is hardly exploitative, and as Pérez conveys Jericho's personality with great facial expressions. (Jericho, who is mute, was specifically disallowed from having thought balloons by Pérez.) Indeed, Pérez and Wolfman are a seamless team on The Terror of Trigon, and they were never better on The New Teen Titans.

    So why only four stars for my review? Because the copy I took out of the library was missing four pages, among them the final two. It's kind of disappointing to read something really excellent, but not completely. So I have to engage in a little guesswork, here.

    Updated Review: I changed my rating to five stars, because
    this Web site indexes the second New Teen Titans series and told me, in good detail, what I missed. And yes, it was good.

  • ziad

    I loved the Trigon storyline. But how raven died was really disappointing, but I’m glad she got rid of Trigon for good. Raven deserved better.!!

  • Scott

    In this collection, the Titans must save Raven's soul from her father, the demon Trigon, and force him to retreat from Earth, which he is gradually transforming.

    In its day, this title was the primary market competitor to Marvel's immensely popular X-Men. Unfortunately, I don't think Marv Wolfman's writing holds up nearly as well today as Chris Claremont's does. Despite touching on some mature themes (Raven being the product of a rape, Dick and Kory sleeping together), The New Teen Titans still feels like it is written for juveniles. The most obvious evidence is in the super-annoying Changeling and his constant barrage of bad jokes, but it's there in more subtle ways as well.

    The story itself (being what it is) is full of metaphysical nonsense and finishes with a deus ex machina that makes the whole conflict and journey feel unsatisfying.

    On the plus side, George Pérez (the hardest-working artist in comics) is at his best here. And there are some good sequences, particularly one where the Titans confront their dark selves, and with them all their worst fears and insecurities.

    It's still an okay comic, just not a great one.

  • Daniel Kukwa

    Wow, this takes me back. The Teen Titans was one surprisingly successful title, and that it became one of DC Comics' flagship series in the 1980s says a great deal about the quality Wolfman & Perez put into its development. This graphic novel collects the first half-dozen issues from the re-launched, prestige-format series, and it's a fantastic introduction to the team. It's also a nostalgic trip back in time to a surprisingly dark & adult series that had quite a hold on the comic book universe. Forget the cute anime-inspired Titans cartoon series of recent years...THIS is the gold standard.

  • Scott Lee

    Excellent Teen Titans work. After reading Geoff Johns's work on the title and absolutely loving everything he did (before the one year later re-set that is) I decided I had to check out the Wolfman/Perez run that I'd heard so much about. Grabbing this volume--one of the few my local library has--was part of that effort. Wolfman and Perez are fantastic here. Definitely from the era when Comics were an equally written and illustrated medium as opposed to the current era when the written word takes a definite back seat to visual exposition, but I still really enjoyed it. Great characters, strong plotting and dialogue, and great art.

  • Aurora

    This is a great story, concisely told, with great character work and the perfect level of angst. Much, much better than The Judas Contract. Great silly art.

  • Juan Jose

    Excellent first issue!

  • Allen Stucker

    I give both the art and the story a 3 out of 5. This is a very stereotypical eighties comic. I've always been a fan of the Teen Titans but I don't think this aged as well as some.

  • Fugo Feedback

    Creo que leí todos los capítulos salteados en revistitas hace mil, aunque por suerte después conseguí el taco. Por ahora lo marco como leído hasta nuevo aviso.

  • Dony Grayman

    Taco que se encuentra en muy buen estado para la cantidad de años que tiene y cuyo contenido jamás envejece.

  • Christine

    For an 80's comic book, I really really enjoyed this one.

  • Dan Chandel

    Love it!